Museum of Ice Cream, LA

Downtown's Arts District serves as a temporary home for the photogenic monument to dessert

by Kyle Raymond Fitzpatrick From 22 April through 29 May, a warehouse space in Downtown LA‘s Arts District will stand as a monument to dessert: it is the temporary home of the Museum of Ice Cream. The Museum lies at the sensory intersection of sweet tooth and Instagram and is the highly anticipated West coast sequel to last summer’s New York showing. A few crowd-pleasers …

“Soft,” an Exhibition of Woven Art

Vans presents a textile-driven group show at LA's Superchief Gallery

There are artists who use textile development as the medium for their expression and there are those whose work translates well into the woven world. “Soft,” a Vans-sponsored exhibition running at LA’s Superchief Gallery, focuses on the latter—and one would be lying if they didn’t find the imagery featured in the show uncommon to the world of textile art. Curated by artists Sean Morris and …

COS + Snarkitecture’s LA Pop-Up Shop

A temporary retail experience, inspired by the AW15 collection, plays with reflections and tones

by Ariel Katz Last night in Downtown Los Angeles, COS launched their latest pop-up, created in collaboration with Daniel Arsham and Alex Mustonen of experimental Brooklyn-based design studio Snarkitecture and housed inside Scandinavian concept store Austere. It’s a feast for the eyes (and the second collaboration between the two)—a two-story exploration of form, tone, reflection and silhouettes. Together, they’ve designed and built a considered and …